Stats

Amazon tracks the stats of all the authors it sells for.  Something that they've started to do is author rank.  They only track the top 500,000 authors, which is a lot of authors!  It gets updated every hour and is based on how many books are being sold.  My highest rank so far was in November, it was 105,440.

Amazon also tracks the individual book sells.  They track the top two million books.  Currently my highest ranked book is The True Story of Hope the cat coming in at a very modest 474, 446.

So, I might not be a top selling author but my work is getting read, which is a reward within itself.

Great Thinkers

I have a great love of history and this book was a way for me to talk about a few historical figures who have made some big impacts on our world in a very simple and brief way.  This book is so simple that a child can use it.  For every letter of the alphabet there is a thinker with a brief summary of the thinker's beliefs or accomplishments.  Not a lot of information is provided but the hope is that the reader will seek out more information on his or her own.  A quotation from the thinker is also posted on the page.

Whether we agree with them or not, (and there are many philosophers in the book that I disagree with) the ideas of these men have, in many ways, shaped our modern culture.  By no means is this a complete work with every philosopher.  It is a very simple to the point introduction to several philosophers.

Something to remember when considering a great thinker, "We are what we think.  All that we are arises from our thoughts.  With our thoughts we make the world." - Buddha.  Regardless of whether or not this book is something that interests you - think great thoughts because thoughts make us into who we are.

Rescued Animals of Pinon, AZ

This is a picture of my son and I with Hope, one of the animals that my wife and I have rescued during our time in Pinon.  As much as we love animals and especially Hope, the reality is that we can't keep them all and have to find them homes.  Animals are mistreated everywhere in the world but on the Navajo Reservation it is especially bad.  Hope was abandoned as a kitten not yet weened off his mother's milk.

My son loves animals and animals seem to love him.  I started writing the Rescued series for him as children's books for him to enjoy.  I hope you will check them out.  Two of the stories are about Hope and the other one is about Angel, a dog.

Happy Reading.